Hey, Kid.
Hey to all of you as well, Folks.
I hope that life has been treating you well!
Me?
Hmm.
I don't know how I am doing, which is a bit weird...
I suppose I feel a bit off today.
I think we all have these sorts of days every once in a while; it just comes down to how we face and deal with them.
I feel like I am...
Strange to most people.
I am goofy and quirky.
Aloft and unserious.
Hmm.
Maybe those traits are off-putting to most people.
Maybe those traits keep people at bay so that YOU will never be born.
Maybe that is by nature's design, because why else would I be who I am and the way I am?
Hmm, again.
I often feel like I annoy people.
Like I am overbearing in some way or another.
"Too much." as some would say.
So I just stay quiet.
I don't talk much.
I speak when spoken to, and I think I will keep it that way.
That way I don't step on anyone's toes, you know?
I hate the feeling of being an inconvenience...
The feeling of inadvertently being rude.
Hmm...
I apologize, Kid.
To you as well, Folks.
I don't like spilling my melancholy state of mind all over you.
I will let you get to what you came for, yeah?
Enjoy.
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June 05th, 2020.
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Dear You.
The world seems to be crumbling...
Pandemic.
Race riots.
Protest.
Looters...
When will the hatred end?
I fear for you to come into the world in this state that it's in...
Odds are, you'll be at least half Black.
A gift, and a curse.
Remember: Of all the things you'll ever be...
You'll always be Black.
Love you, Kid.
-Dad.
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Hmm.
I often think that the majority of the things that happen around us are just large-scale distractions, you know?
By whom, you ask?
I don't tend to speak on what I don't know enough about.
That's probably why I don't have a writing contract, lol.
That and my shitty grammatical acumen.
-I am Black. I had assumed that you would be at least half Black, as I was with someone of Hispanic descent for quite some time.
That has changed, as things tend to in life, you know?
But change is many things.
inevitable.
Quick.
Scary.
Unavoidable.
One thing that can't change is who you are.
Live by that.
Change only what and when you need to.
Be flexible, but be unbreakable.
The curse that comes with being Black in America is quite layered, and would be very difficult to outline in but a few sentences...
Hmm.
Examples?
1. Apparently, we are "naturally intimidating", whatever that means.
2. Our passion often presents to others as irrational emotional outbreaks.
3. The color of our skin can oftentimes dictate what people think of us just from an initial glance.
I think there is a word for that.
Something along the lines of being "pre-judged- or whatnot, I don't know, lol.
I pray that you never have to deal with that, but the odds are not in your favor, Kid, lbvs.
I am Black, and your mom?
I can't tell the future.
She could be anyone and of any race.
We will see, won't we?
-As for the hatred and racial inequality? I see and fear that it will never truly and purely be purged from humanity, for it is simply just too far deeply seeded within our nature.
Too much profit-driven war.
Too much government-funded poverty.
Too many vast differences in opinion that will seemingly never change.
Hmm, and hmm again.
I am no Saint, but I don't think I or anyone else has to be in order to see that Humanity needs to be better, or we will simply burn ourselves out of the pages of our own history books, then burn the books themselves.
Keep learning and improving, Kid.
You as well, Folks.
Life is short, but sweet.
Let's make the best of what we have, and share what best things we have around.
I love and appreciate you all, and thank you kindly for listening to that bleak worldview, lbvs.
Things will get better.
They always do.
Just keep pushing.
Safe travels, Kid.
Safe travels, Folks.
See you all soon enough, yeah?
And as always:
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.
Stay vigilant.
-Bluu.